Pimenterie Quotes & Sayings

I'm on the New York State Council for the Arts now, and every so often some other member talks about sending notices to college English departments about some literary opportunity, and I say, Send them to the chemistry departments, send them to the zoology departments, send them to the anthropology departments and the astronomy departments and physics departments, and all the medical and law schools. That's where the writers are most likely to be. — Kurt Vonnegut

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks

What have we done to the world? ... Look what we've done ... — Michael Jackson

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor. — Marty Robbins

You can learn about how people think by playing with their lives, but that's inhumane. — Yoon Ha Lee

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics — Henry Rollins

The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan. — John Tesh

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open. — Daniel Radcliffe

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos. — Thomas De Quincey

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged. — Bill Bryson

Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end? — Glennon Doyle Melton

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so. — Igor Sikorsky

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip. — Phil Foglio